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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid...Jimmy Carter In His Own
Words
Falsely Jailed Attorney Brandon Mayfield Discusses His Case
After Feds Award $2 Million and Written Apology
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid...Jimmy Carter In
His Own Words
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is accusing Israel of
creating an apartheid system in the West Bank and Gaza. The
charge comes in his new book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
We play an address by Carter talking about the Palestine-Israel
conflict, the role of the United States and much more. Carter
says, "Palestinians are deprived of basic human rights,
their land has been occupied, then confiscated, then colonized
by the Israeli settlers." [includes rush
transcript]
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is accusing Israel of
creating an apartheid system in the West Bank and Gaza. The
charge comes in his new book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
The Nobel Peace Prize winner has been deeply involved in
Middle East policies for the past three decades. As president
he negotiated the Camp David Accords - which secured a lasting
peace between Israel and Egypt.
In his new book, Jimmy Carter writes, "Israel's continued
control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the
primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the
Holy Land."
Carter criticizes Israel for building what he describes as
an imprisonment wall through the West Bank. He accuses Israel
of strangling the residents of Gaza where the poverty rate
has reached 70 percent and where the malnutrition rate mirrors
countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. And Carter is critical of
Washington's role. He writes, "The United States is squandering
international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global
anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting
the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories."
Some of the most vocal critics of Carter's book have been
fellow Democrats. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said,
"It is wrong to suggest that the Jewish people would
support a government in Israel or anywhere else that institutionalizes
ethnically based oppression, and Democrats reject that allegation
vigorously."
John Conyers, the incoming chair of the House Judiciary Committee,
urged Carter to change the title of the book, which he described
as "offensive and wrong."
Meanwhile, the nation's newspapers have largely ignored Jimmy
Carter's book since its publication two weeks ago. The book
hasn't even been mentioned in the news pages of the New York
Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Boston
Globe or Los Angeles Times.
Today on Democracy Now we are going to hear Jimmy Carter
in his own words. On Tuesday night he discussed his book "Palestine:
Peace Not Apartheid" at an event in Virginia.
- Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President, speaking November
28th, 2006.
Falsely Jailed Attorney Brandon Mayfield Discusses
His Case After Feds Award $2 Million and Written Apology
The U.S. government has agreed to pay $2 million and issue
a written apology to a Muslim attorney in Oregon who was jailed
two years ago after the FBI mistakenly linked him to the Madrid
train bombings. Brandon Mayfield sued the FBI alleging that
his civil rights had been violated and that he was arrested
in part because he is a Muslim convert. In a Democracy Now!
national broadcast exclusive, Brandon Mayfield and his wife,
Mona, join us from Portland. [includes rush transcript]
The U.S. government has agreed to pay two million dollars
and issue a written apology to a Muslim attorney in Oregon
who was jailed two years ago after the FBI mistakenly linked
him to the Madrid train bombings.
Brandon Mayfield was arrested and jailed for two weeks in
May 2004. At the time the FBI claimed his fingerprints matched
those found on a bag filled with detonators used in the Madrid
bombings that killed 191 people. The FBI ignored warnings
from Spanish authorities that the fingerprints were not Mayfield's.
Prior to his arrest, the FBI used the Patriot Act to break
into his home and office and to electronically monitor his
conversations.
Mayfield, who is a former Army lieutenant, sued the FBI alleging
that his civil rights had been violated and that he was arrested
in part because he is a Muslim convert. Brandon Mayfield and
his wife Mona join us from Portland Oregon.
- Brandon Mayfield, attorney based in Portland Oregon who
was wrongly jailed in connection to the 2004 Madrid train
bombings.
- Mona Mayfield, wife of Brandon Mayfield.
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